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I stuck four of the drives into my FreeNAS setup this morning. We'll have to see how that works out.

The way I read the document, that only applies to new memberships, not to existing ones.

The terms for new subscriptions to Technet changed today. Some of the more important changes: * Product keys will only be activated within the subscription period * "Home"-class products removed * Products out of the support lifecycle were removed * Standalone installers for single MS Office...

Most of those women aren't really attendees but models or booth babes. Which is not to say that there aren't hot chicks at comic book conventions. In fact there are tons of them. It's just that those chicks were pretty much all paid to be there. Just about the only time I've seen pro-grade...

Whatever. It doesn't look much different from the Toyota she parked next to.

My boss got an Audi A5 for her birthday. Whatever the fuck that is.

I'm under the impression that my Evo charges very quickly from a wall charger and very slowly via USB.

Home improvement is my father's hobby. I grew up in houses that were always at least half-torn apart. I spent a portion of my teenage years with no interior walls in my bedroom. Many of the projects my dad did carried on for YEARS. The result of this is the firm belief that do it yourself...

Bread is absolutely insane. I tend to think about things that I eat in terms of how many slices of sandwich bread they equate to and how much time I have to spend walking to work that off. At the pace I walk, a slice of bread is maybe 12 minutes of walking. That REALLY gives me pause over...

I know. Seriously. Some day Apple will invent a glorious new downloading arbitrary things from file servers technology and on that the technology press will mess its shorts over the awesomeness. :hurl: Christ. I'm even going to use a second smiley. :beer: That one's for you, MaxBurn.

I pretty much could never get fired. However, I also can't tell anyone else what to do with their stuff or how to do their job. As far as this one computer, I'll extract the value for whatever I give her in other ways. Like, hey, someone randomly putting a carton of 2TB hard drives on my desk.

The T430s weighs under 4lbs, has an ultrabay that can be adapted to hold a second hard disk and a 1600x900 screen. Why is it not in contention again?

That's a lot of money just so you can keep up with time, dd. ;)

She's getting a pair of 5400rpm 80GB drives. I'm basically doing this out of my own stock of spare parts so I can turn off a bunch of machines that are presently running in my office.

I assembled the Q6600 in this enclosure and the stock HSF. Added 8GB of DDR2 and set it up with a 300GB Raptor just to be sadistic. Loaded ESX. Then I loaded four VMs onto it and reconfigured all of them to be 1 CPU/1.5GB systems and set them about converting folders full of .Flac files into...

Google says drive heat does not matter. I don't remember the last time I encountered a 7200rpm drive that I thought was legitimately loud and hot. It was probably a SCSI drive though.

OK so anyway: Google builds a neural network that is fed a diet of Youtube videos. After three days, they find that it likes cat videos the best.

I don't know. Squeegee seems like an acceptable and just-as-functional primary use for an ipad2.

You know you have too many Android tablets when you decide that one of them is going to be dedicated for reading in the bathtub.

Gosh. The light weight and insane battery life must be a terrible burden. ;)

My experience with Shuttle machines is that the power supplies invariably die an early death and are ridiculously expensive to replace. I already have a couple options for non-Shuttle enclosures. I have a Thermaltake chassis in mind that I'm probably going to mate with either a 2x 2.5" in one...

So I want to put together an ESX machine in an mITX shoebox. The goal here is to deal with the fact that my coworker absolutely refuses to replace or part ways with the nine year old 17" P4 boatanchor notebook she uses for dev work. This machine needs to be at least portable enough for her to...

I'm curious to know your opinions on the keyboard. I'm a little annoyed about my T420. I rest my left thumb on the space bar. That's what I've ALWAYS done. The plastic on my T420's keyboard is so soft that I've visibly worn away the plastic where my thumb sits in just six months. I don't mind...

Two and Four drive configurations are very common for low-end NAS setups. Entry level disk controllers often have four SATA ports. FreeNAS likes (or at least its developers strongly encourage) adding disks in groups of five. It's probably more reasonable to target more common configurations...

I believe I've read that the average grade at a US university is now an A. College in the US is now most the a testimony to the fact that someone was willing to pay $10,000 a year to an institution for long enough to be granted a degree. Credential inflation really, really pisses me off. But...

1. Take some old desktop you already have sitting around. Install the smallest, crappiest drive you have sitting around and five other, identical drives that are not Seagate or WD "Eco" models. 2. Install FreeNAS. Configure the drives as a single zPool. Turn on SMB networking. Share the zPool...

It's pretty close to zero, except as a stupid penis-measurement tool. The funny bit is seeing scores THAT ridiculous on a virtual computer in the first place. If nothing else, there's no way that number has any real meaning if it's associated with the actual video hardware in that computer.

Is it really such a horrible burden to have a two drive configuration with data on a magnetic drive?

Apps Sync works. It's $50/user/year though. Or free if you switch them to Thunderbird.

The problem is, OCZ just has no support at all. Maybe they have a zillion engineers optimizing the hell out of their firmware, but since I've always communicated with the same human being doing support, I wonder if it's just that one guy doing everything for everybody who has a problem in North...

The drives definitely do drop out of Windows SoftRAID also. They can't even keep their shit together for an ICH10 RAID1 of two drives.

I am absolutely talking about RAID. You're worried about bad sectors screwing up irreplaceable files, and RAID5/6 or distributing the data in a zPool would absolutely help guard against that. It's not perfect or infallible but it's a start. You should probably also look at an online backup system.

I find it endlessly amusing that an instance of Vista running on VMware Workstation on my T420 has a Windows Experience Index score of 5.7 out of 5.9. And it has three 5.9 subscores. That's some fine emulatin'.

Apparently WD isn't the only one that is aware their shit is broken. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess these are just Hitachi 5400rpm drives with a different sticker on them.

I kind of like what the EU is doing, actually prosecuting a banker for manipulating markets. It would be nice if the US were like that.

I haven't found any way to readily monitor for corruption. Presumably the CRC data from a RAID5 or a zPool would help out quite a bit. It's not like you don't have plenty of drives sitting around to do such a thing.

It's not my thing, but I can respect it. Those guys legitimately know how to play their instruments and the ability to improvise is way, WAY harder than it sounds. For jazz I just prefer small ensembles. I think the most recent Jazz recording I've purchased was something by Christian McBride.

It is my observation that heavy metal fans mostly tend to be quiet and unassuming folks in person. The obnoxious meathead frat brother that I'd more readily accuse of closet queerdom is pretty much not a heavy metal fan. Also, I have seen a picture of Coug. I'm not going to speculate as to his...

Sure, but on the other hand, why subject yourself to that when you can pay 2% more and get something that actually has a decent warranty? Intel's RMA turnaround time is in my experience around two business days. Regardless of what that drive will be worth in three years (hint: not a whole lot)...

I most certainly have. My copies of the included DVD-Audio discs have been ripped to multichannel .FLAC even.

Linux and Windows Softraids both work that way. So does ZFS. That said, there may be particulars where one implementation plays nicer than others.

I can probably dig up receipts. I know I was getting them for under $100.

I'm doing with them what I'd do with any other drive, especially when I have a whole, whole bunch of them. I'm only using half of what I have; ultimately I don't think I'd trust anything less than a RAID51-like configuration to begin with.

Computer speakers in the headphone jack. Honestly, that's probably a better deal than the crappy speakers you'll find on a 19" display anyway.

Isn't the deal with gaming setups "push to talk?" vs. having an open channel all the time? Is that configured by the game or by the hardware?

This post makes me sob and wish it were last summer when those drives got down to $95.

I see his point. They don't put everything on the install media but why should he have to do something like that? Windows of course isn't any better. I spend stupid amounts of time maintaing install images for it, too.

Looks like I'm going to need a gaming microphone. Do they make those without headsets?

27 hours after setting up a 12-drive Linux SoftRAID, mdadm tells me the array is degraded. People suggest various fixes online - there's a tool that modifies the firmware to support proper error checking (I'm guessing that voids the warranty); some people suggest disabling NCQ; others claim that...

As long as you avoid a couple chipsets, 802.11 normally works just fine. Unfortunately, one of the vendors that's most hostile to *nix is Atheros, which is ridiculously common in cheap hardware. To me the bigger issue with mainsteam Linux distributions is that they keep fucking with the GUI...